Category: Geeks r Us
Hi all,
I have a query for you all...I've been asked to repatriate a friend's MacBook pro into a windows machine. So I would welcome any tips you can give regarding the bootcamp process? Its a relatively old MacBook from 2012. So yeah. any tips would be awesome.
Is there an applevis guide on the process somewhere?
Thanks
Me
yes there is.
Okay, before I sold my midd 2012 mac book pro, "Boy do I miss that computer" any way back on topic I go. First, make sure you have a windows lisened DVD or image. Second, head over to boot camp and have a empty flash drive handy so you can download the bootcamp drivers for windows. Third: place the dvd in his or her drive, plug into the USB port the spare flash drive. Fourth launch bootcamp and follow the wizard on your screen. here you have a choice as to how much windows will take space from OS via a partition, please follow the promps on screen with voiceover carefully. When your done setting the partition tell the mac its a windows install and click next. It will download the drivers to your flash drive before the windows instllation begins
One thing you will want to be aware of, is that using a Boot Camp partition of
Windows on a Mac will drain your battery quicker then if you were using just the
regular mac OS. Something else you might want to consider downloading, is
one of the talking windows PE installers, for either Windows 7 or eight. Not sure
if there is one for 8.1 yet
windows PE installers? can you expand on this? link?
There talking installers that use NVDA to guide you through a install. How one authorizes such a windows installer is beyond me.
Oh, crap, I forgot you need a pare of USB speakers or head phones.
You would think as good as Narrator has become for Windows 8.1, you wouldn't need USB speakers to make your machine talk. Just one reason Microsoft just don't have it in the Blind community. Linux and OSX have had the functionality for years!
exactly. this is why if I use windows,I just use fusionfor everything.
What is Fusion? And what is Linux like compared to Windows? I have no experience or knowledge of Linux whatsoever. Is it as good as a Mac would be?
I don't think anything beats a mac. fusion is virtual machine software that you can run on a mac and create a virtual machine of windows, Linux, or whatever you want. I use that all the time since a lot of the time here I don't have sited eyes around and I like to be able to swich from 1 system to the other without having to shut the mac down and start whatever machine up like if it was just a normal machine.
slightly off-topic since people mentioned fusion, what is the latest version of this software, and how much does it cost to get a copy of it? Which is easier from a screen-reader user's point of view, partitioning the mac's hard drive and installing windows via bootcamp, or installing first Fusion and going through all the stuff to get windows running on the virtual machine?
Fusion would be far easier for you. Yu could back up the image file of an OS from the Mac side, and then restore it if your Windows OS had trouble.
I don't have it, I've only got 8 GB of RAM in my mini at the moment.
However, Fusion lets you do all the installation tasks from the Mac, and you're running it off an image file that gets virtually mounted, is the best way to put it. Not a logical mount, but Fusion treats it as such.
the first version of fusion I baught was version 5 something, and I believe I payed around 80 bucks for it. but since I'm a VMware customer, I can get the latest versions at discounts if I upgrade from an older version. and having 8 gigs of ram in a mac mini is fine if you wanna run fusion, I have 4 in this MacBook air and windows runs on 2 of them while the other 2 I have for my mac. pretty damn fast I can tell you that much
I can't wait to get my Mac tomorrow, I will be posting updates here shortly.....
cool
Yeah I'm using my Mac to type this. it is so amazing. How do I turn off the
feature where it is trying to predict what I want to type.